AIT Series: Living in icons
Light, Air, Sun (AIT 12.2025)
When Aino and Alvar Aalto were commissioned in 1929 to design the sanatorium in Paimio, Finland, there was still no effe …
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Zuhause sein (AIT 1/2.2024)
Villa Winternitz is the last work of Adolf Loos and his Czech partner Karel Lhota. The property is also a testimony to t …
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Town Hall Säynätsalo (AIT 5.2023)
The town hall of the small central-Finland town of Säynätsalo is considered one of Alvar Aalto’s key works. Nestled in a …
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The Schminke House (AIT 6.2022)
The Schminke House is one of four outstanding examples of the Neues Bauen and the International Style movements worldwid …
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Tautes Heim (AIT 11.2021)
The house in the south of Berlin called Tautes Heim by its owners Katrin Lesser and Ben Buschfeld is architectural and d …
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Briol (AIT 6.2021)
An unusual place with an equally unusual (family) history: at the end of the 1920s, Johanna Settari, widow and mother of …
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House on the Alb (AIT 5.2021)
In the time between the construction of the Stuttgart Weissenhofsiedlung and the takeover by the National Socialists, a …
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Ressort Flaine (AIT 3.2021)
The Flaine ski resort designed by Marcel Breuer in the French Alps between 1960 and 1979 makes the hearts of winter-spor …
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Parco dei Principi (AIT 10.2020)
For tourism in the Sorrento area, it was a blessing that the old master of Italian modernist architecture Gio Ponti (189 …
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Villa Benkemoun (AIT 4.2020)
Feeling like James Bond just for once and reside in a futuristic-looking, extravagant villa with a pool not far from the …
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Ca’ Romanino (AIT 12 | 2019)
In 1968, the Italian architect Giancarlo de Carlo (1919-2005) built a weekend home on a vineyard near Urbino for a frien …
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Villa Garbald (AIT 10 | 2019)
This summer, Dr. Uwe Bresan accompanied architecture students from the University of Stuttgart to a writing seminar taki …